Grants And Fund Engagement Manager

Prospectus is delighted to be supporting a charity in their search for a Grants and Fund Engagement Manager, managing the charity’s grants function to support life-changing care. This is a permanent, full-time position based in London (Hybrid).

King’s patients are at the heart of everything that the charity does. We’re the Charity dedicated to supporting life-changing care for patients at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s). King’s is one of the biggest and busiest Trusts in the country, primarily serving the London Boroughs of Southwark, Lambeth, and Bromley, with a population of over 1 million people, and acting as a referral centre for millions more. Their specialist services provide nationally and internationally recognised treatment and care in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology, and fetal medicine. The organisation makes the best care for patients possible by raising money for cutting edge equipment and facilities, supporting staff, innovative research, and pioneering care and treatment.

It is an exciting time to join the Grants & Insight Team and help support the innovative and ambitious plans for our grant funding. In 2023, the Da Vinci XI Robot-Assisted Surgical system (RAS) was unveiled at King’s College Hospital at Denmark Hill. The Robot will be used in surgery, and is already providing demonstrable benefits for patients, reducing the length of stay in the hospital post-surgery, faster recovery time and fewer post-surgical complications.

Through the Crown Fund, we invest in projects to improve outcomes for patients who are particularly frail or vulnerable, whether through the complexity of their needs, the acuity of their illness or wider factors that prevent them from getting the help they need. In autumn 2023 we committed to supporting the King’s team working with patients living with sickle cell disease to improve the management of this very painful and debilitating condition so people can enjoy healthier lives.

The Role:

Reporting to the Director of Grants & Insights, the new Grants and Fund Engagement Manager will manage the charity’s grants function, from receiving applications, allocating funds, and overseeing implementation. This pivotal post will also manage the engagement with the Special Purpose Funds, encouraging good applications and proactively  coordinating with hospital teams throughout grant implementation. The post holder will work very closely with the Grants Insight Manager to track progress and outcomes once grants have been distributed – ensuring effective learning from grants. The Grants and Fund Engagement Manager will work in partnership with senior hospital staff to develop opportunities into strong grant proposals achieving patient benefit.

The Person:

To be successful, you will have experience managing projects/programmes, with excellent organisation skills, and an ability to juggle multiple projects and tasks. You will be able to assess projects, and work with colleagues to improve applications. You will be an effective communicator and relationship builder, able to hold relationships with staff and donors at all levels. You will be process-driven, always keen to improve processes for greater efficiency and impact, while being able to navigate King’s’ processes to ensure smooth implementation of projects. Being an experienced grant-maker, confident in developing, disbursing, and tracking grants, will be an advantage, but if you have transferable skills applicable to proactive grant-making, then we are keen to hear from you too.  Is it desirable, but not a necessity, for you to be passionate about healthcare and/or have a Medical/Science background. We will be very interested in candidates from King’s catchment area, or who have lived experience of Kings College Hospital Trust in any of its locations.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.